Advanced statistics are now an integral part of the game. The old school crowd that still believes RBIs are a valid stat to tell if a batter is good or not and that pitcher wins tells a story are shrinking.
Let’s discuss an advanced statistic and see if it can be useful to us. Today we’ll discuss wRC+ or weighted runs created plus.
wRC+ in it’s simplest definition is an offensive score (weighted on-base average) that is compared against all the other players. That is a score of 100 would be league average and 180 (superstar) would be 80% better than league average.